Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volděti

• *voldati

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀdā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”). Cognates include Lithuanian valdýti (“to rule, to govern, to wield”) (3sg. val̃do, 3sg. past val̃dė), Latvian vàldît (“to rule, to govern, to wield”), Lithuanian veldė́ti (“to inherit”), Old Prussian walduns, weldūns (“heir”), weldīsnan (“legacy”), Old Lithuanian pavilsti (“to inherit”), pavildė́ti (“to own”), English wield.

*volděti

1. to rule

• *volsti (“to rule”)
• *volstь (“rule”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: володѣти (voloděti)
    • Old Ruthenian: володѣти (voloděti)
      • Ukrainian: володі́ти (volodíty)
    • Russian: володе́ть (volodétʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: владѣти (vladěti), владати (vladati)

    Glagolitic script: [Term?]

    • → Russian: владе́ть (vladétʹ), владѣ́ть (vladě́tʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
      • → Kildin Sami: владье (vlad’’e)
  • Bulgarian: владе́я (vladéja)
  • Macedonian: владее (vladee)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вла́дати

    Latin script: vládati

  • Slovene: vládati, ládati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vládnout
  • Old Polish: włodać
    • Polish: władać
    • → Belarusian: улада́ць (uladácʹ)
  • Slovak: vládať

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “владе́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 156
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*volděti; *voldati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “володе́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress